John Bunyan Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Disappointment, Grace

  John Bunyan (1873). “The Complete Works”, p.79

• To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a new creature, which is the workmanship of God... Wherefore whoever receiveth the grace that is tendered in the gospel, they must be quickened by the power of God, their eyes must be opened, their understandings illuminated, their ears unstopped, their hearts circumcised, their wills also rectified, and the Son of God revealed in them.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Eye, Son

  John Bunyan, George Offor (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan: Accurately Reprinted from the Authors Own Editions ; Wth Editorial Prefaces, Notes, and Life of Bunyan”, p.350

• Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Grace, Spirit

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.89

• Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Art, Prayer

  JOHN BUNYAN (1860). “THE ENTIRE WORKS”, p.171

• There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

  John Bunyan

  Blessed, Perfect, Judging

• It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Grace, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4177, Delphi Classics

• Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

  John Bunyan

  Grace, No Fear, Hell

  John BUNYAN (1836). “The Pilgrim ́s Progress”, p.279

• Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Heart, Knowing

  John Bunyan (1859). “The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical”, p.102

• Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his evil nature to every sin which has been committed by others, and is humbled; he also confesses, that, by no power of his own, is he preserved, but ever gives the glory to the God of all grace, by whose power alone he is kept from falling.

  John Bunyan

  Fall, Heart, Hands

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.85

• There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Grace, Salvation

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of John Bunyan: With an introduction to each treatise, notes, and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries”, p.357

• It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

  John Bunyan

  Pride, Grace, Saint

• Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.

  John Bunyan

  Support, Grace, Needs

  John Bunyan (1839). “The fear of God”, p.94

• Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

  John Bunyan

  Grace, Small Gifts, Great Gifts

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.82

• All that the Father giveth me SHALL COME... Here, therefore, the Lord Jesus positively determineth to put forth such a sufficiency of all grace as shall effectually perform this promise. They shall come; that is, he will CAUSE them to come, by infusing of an effectual blessing into all the means that shall be used to that end.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Father, Mean

  John Bunyan (1853). “The Works of John Bunyan: With an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries ...”, p.246

• Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

  John Bunyan

  Revenge, Men, Order

• Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

  John Bunyan

  Mercy Of God, Grace, Soul

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.459

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